"We were nice to them while we beat them. That was, in one day, the next 40 years. We're gonna be cheerful, and we're gonna beat them, we're gonna be polite, and we're gonna beat them. For the next 40 years."

-Grover Norquist, head of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, on Republican civility during the first day of the new Congress.

"I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go `Ugh. I wouldn't like her either.' "

-Hillary Rodham Clinton, on what she sees as her distorted public image.